This Army General Is Accused Of Forcing Sex On His Troops And Threatening Their Lives

The trial of Brigadier Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair began yesterday unleashing a torrent of details about the case that have been closely guarded since the charges were brought against him in May.

ABC News reports Sinclair served as deputy commander in charge of logistics for the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan from 2012 until being delivered to Fort Bragg five months ago to face allegations of:

26 violations of military law

Forcible sodomy

Wrongful sexual conduct

Possessing pornography while deployed

Conduct unbecoming an officer

The incidents allegedly occurred from 2007 to 2012 in Germany, Iraq, and Afghanistan involving four female military subordinates and one civilian staff member.

NBC reports that Major General James Huggins testified on Monday against Sinclair saying he had one of the women, a captain, assigned to his unit in Afghanistan and that she carried out a three year affair with the general.

Huggins says that after discovering emails from him to other women Sinclair "forcibly sodomized her after grabbing her by the neck, and threatened her career if she backed out of the relationship."

In addition prosecutors contend that Sinclair threatened to kill a subordinate, or her family, if she disclosed her affair with him.

The way Sinclair spoke to women had raised questions from fellow officers in the past, and prosecutors report that in response Sinclair said: "I'm a general. I'll say whatever the f*ck I want."